Ryan Routh, who’s charged within the second assassination try of Donald Trump, tied himself to the President-elect’s different would-be murderer, Thomas Crooks, in a weird letter from jail — by which he additionally ranted concerning the “two-party system.”
Routh 58, despatched the letter to Politico reporter Ankush Khardori from a federal detention middle in Miami the place he’s awaiting trial after he allegedly tried to take out Trump at his Florida golf course earlier this 12 months.
Within the 4 web page letter, by which Routh refers to himself a number of instances because the “Alleged Trump shooter,” he railed in opposition to the US’s two-party system and emphasised that he has no affiliation to the Democratic occasion — regardless of a transparent contempt for Trump, whom he referred to as a “dictator.”
At one level within the letter, Routh hyperlinks himself to Crooks — who nicked Trump within the ear whereas he was talking at a marketing campaign occasion in Pennsylvania over the summer time earlier than he was instantly shot lifeless by Secret Service brokers.
Routh, regardless of pleading not responsible in his personal alleged assassination try, described them each, as being “ready to die for freedom and democracy.”
Within the letter, which was written earlier than the election, Routh mentioned that if Trump have been to win the election, the nation should “take away the ability of our army by the President and place it with Congress earlier than January.
“We must limit all Presidential power before Trump seizes our country,” he added.
If Vice President Kamala Harris have been to win, Routh referred to as on Individuals to encompass the Capitol to forestall one other Jan. 6 scenario and regarded the true chance of “civil war.”
